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Encyclopaedia of Caribbean Archaeology offers a comprehensive overview of the available archaeological research conducted in the region. Beginning with the earliest native migrations and moving through contemporary issues of heritage management, the contributors tackle the usual questions of colonisation, adaptation, and evolution while embracing newer research techniques, such as geo-informatics, archaeometry, paleodemography, DNA analysis, and seafaring simu¬lations. Entries are cross-referenced so readers can efficiently access data on a variety of related topics. The introduction includes a survey of the various archaeological periods in the Caribbean, as well as a discussion of the region’s geography, climate, topography, and oceanography. It also offers an easy-to-read review of the historical archaeology, providing a better understanding of the cultural contexts of the Caribbean that re¬sulted from the convergence of European, Native American, African, and then Asian settlers.

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Brings into a single volume a comprehensive cataloging of the rich material relics that make the Caribbean so inviting. Practitioners and scholars of human and physical geography, tourism, international marketing, history, heritage studies, Atlantic and diasporic studies, African studies, physical and cultural anthropology, and related fields will find something of value in these pages. -- Journal of Latin American Geography Valuable for academic/research libraries and natural/cultural history institutes and museums focusing on Caribbean/Latin American studies, archaeology, or anthropology....Highly recommended. -- CHOICE Serves not only as a tool for Caribbeanists who want quick access to information, but it can also be of great interest to the general public. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Valuable for academic/research libraries and natural/cultural history institutes and museums focusing on Caribbean/Latin American studies, archaeology, or anthropology .Highly recommended. CHOICE Valuable for academic/research libraries and natural/cultural history institutes and museums focusing on Caribbean/Latin American studies, archaeology, or anthropology....Highly recommended. --CHOICE A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society An import entree into Caribbean archaeology as it emerges from the twentieth century. . . .A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. --Journal of Anthropological Research Refreshing and helpful.... bioarcheologists working in the Caribbean will find this volume vital to developing culture historical and contextual information important to anthropological studies of the past. --American Journal of Physical Anthropology Serves not only as a tool for Caribbeanists who want quick access to information, but it can also be of great interest to the general public. --Journal of Caribbean Archaeology A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Valuable for academic/research libraries and natural/cultural history institutes and museums focusing on Caribbean/Latin American studies, archaeology, or anthropology .Highly recommended. CHOICE Refreshing and helpful.... bioarcheologists working in the Caribbean will find this volume vital to developing culture historical and contextual information important to anthropological studies of the past. American Journal of Physical Anthropology An import entree into Caribbean archaeology as it emerges from the twentieth century. . . .A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. Journal of Anthropological Research Brings into a single volume a comprehensive cataloging of the rich material relics that make the Caribbean so inviting. Practitioners and scholars of human and physical geography, tourism, international marketing, history, heritage studies, Atlantic and diasporic studies, African studies, physical and cultural anthropology, and related fields will find something of value in these pages. --Journal of Latin American Geography An import entree into Caribbean archaeology as it emerges from the twentieth century. . . .A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. Journal of Anthropological Research A substantial contribution toward increasing awareness of Caribbean archaeology and its current construction. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Refreshing and helpful.... bioarcheologists working in the Caribbean will find this volume vital to developing culture historical and contextual information important to anthropological studies of the past. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Refreshing and helpful.... bioarcheologists working in the Caribbean will find this volume vital to developing culture historical and contextual information important to anthropological studies of the past. -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Serves not only as a tool for Caribbeanists who want quick access to information, but it can also be of great interest to the general public. -- Journal of Caribbean Archaeology

Valuable for academic/research libraries and natural/cultural history institutes and museums focusing on Caribbean/Latin American studies, archaeology, or anthropology....Highly recommended. -- CHOICE

Brings into a single volume a comprehensive cataloging of the rich material relics that make the Caribbean so inviting. Practitioners and scholars of human and physical geography, tourism, international marketing, history, heritage studies, Atlantic and diasporic studies, African studies, physical and cultural anthropology, and related fields will find something of value in these pages. -- Journal of Latin American Geography

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Basil A. Reid is senior lecturer in archaeology at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago) and the author of Myths and Realities of Caribbean History. R. Grant Gilmore III is a freelance heritage management consultant on the board of the International Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management of the International Council on Monuments and Sites.

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